Why
Study Chinese?

To benefit from one of the fastest growing economy in the
world, which has over $150 billion worth of business transactions with
the US every year. To be able to communicate in a language used by more
than one fifth of the population on the earth, one that is also among the
five official working languages of the United Nations. To appreciate a
civilization more than three thousand years old.

To get to know the culture of a country with a population
of 1.3 billion.

To pursue a career in government/diplomatic affairs, international
trading and commerce, law and higher education, etc.

To enjoy the grandeur of the Great Wall, the Forbidden
Palace, the world-famous Terra-Cotta soldiers, the mausoleum of the first
emperor of the imperial China and many, many more . . .